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Date:      Wed, 3 May 2006 13:00:19 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        "No@SPAM@mgEDV.net" <nospam@mgedv.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wanted: hp-ux glance pendant
Message-ID:  <20060503180019.GC65700@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <000901c66ed4$4cf6c280$dededede@avalon.lan>
References:  <20060503084313.cfa8d990.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <000901c66ed4$4cf6c280$dededede@avalon.lan>

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In the last episode (May 03), No@SPAM@mgEDV.net said:
> > I'm not familiar with glance, but have a look at systat,
> > specifically, the vmstat screen.
> 
> well, thx for the hint. the tool indeed looks nice, and curious as i
> am, i monitored some action with it. i started it with
> "systat -vmstat 1 >/dev/ttyv9 &"
> to get the output to a non-shelled terminal and watch the stats on
> another screen. right now, the only process currently still working
> on the system is the monitor tool itself:
> 
> top output:
>   PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
> 60297 root        1 126    0  1816K  1256K RUN    221:45 99.02% systat
>
> is this normal? it will at least render the figures inaccurate, not?

Systat doesn't like it if it has no stdin; adding a " </dev/ttyv9 "
to your commandline should make it behave.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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